Colonialism and Imperialism: Zionism

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Zionism is a European ideology of Jewish nationalism whose main goal was
to colonize Palestine in order to establish a Jewish state. It can be
seen as an ethnic by-product of the rise of modernist nationalism in
Europe in the mid-nineteenth century. The Jewish state in Palestine was
to redeem the persecuted Eastern European Jews through importing
European cultural technology. Con…